Are we really fighting about hats and shoes again?

"nipples and chest hair in professional settings" may as well be on my business cards.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 2:51 PM on April 25, 2013

You're basically daring me to post a picture of my self at work, aren't you?
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:45 AM on April 26, 2013

In a age when men who aren't professional swimmers wax their bodies out of some concept of propriety, sweat through undershirts because they can't daren't show a smidgen of chest hair, and are generally ashamed of the gifts hirsute god has bestowed upon them...

I will be there.

wait are we talking about john hamm now? dammit, work
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:31 AM on April 26, 2013

Informative answer deleted

Based on working in a similar regulated profession (law) as well my experience with professional medical defense, I think that my comment was factually correct and answered the question

Doctors of MetaFilter, I'd like to know your opinion on this line of reasoning.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 5:48 AM on April 26, 2013

In the spirit of rtha and BU above: Considering there is always a mod on shift, and how rarely MeTas come out, would it be a ridiculous thing to ask for a permanent MeTa queue in the same sense that there's a permanent anonymous question queue?

(rtha and Bunny Ultramod have not endorsed this message.)
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 6:29 AM on April 26, 2013

...linking to valuable information that may answer a question, and from which OP and others might learn, is like handing out drugs without a prescription?

Found nailed to the front door of MeTa:
...
Thesis 76: FPPs where every letter is a link are an eyestrain.

Thesis 77: Most of us are literate and intelligent and, as a group, are capable of interpreting complex information to the extent that it does... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:31 AM on April 26, 2013

I'd love to see some different viewpoints represented on the mod staff.

Like what?

I love the idea of a hardboiled rogue mod who plays by no one's rules but his own but, dammit, he gets the job done.

mathowie: xBongzilla69x, you posted a contentious thread, made a MeTa about your participation in it, caused a shitstorm in the MeTa, and then timed out everyone... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:54 AM on April 26, 2013

Always Professional

Is there any reason you can't stay logged in on that computer?

It's a computer I don't want to log into my account while using.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 1:29 PM on April 25, 2013

Did you try it griphus? didya?! didya?!

I'm actually running out of work right now to my cousin's play/reception in midtown so I'm not gonna get a chance until tomorrow morning. I will definitely let you know, though!
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 2:02 PM on April 25, 2013

Did you try it griphus? didya?! didya?!
griphus...?
did? try? it? ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

Yes! The bookmarklet wanted me to reenter the CSS every time I visited the page (unless I was doing it wrong) but the complete Stylebot plugin is perfect! Thank you!
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 6:40 AM on April 26, 2013

Hugs, High-Fives, and Happiness

I didn't get yelled at by Brandon Blatcher today.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:36 AM on April 25, 2013

Oh, and while this is obviously secondary to my grand accomplishment above: Blisterlips and I got engaged earlier this month.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:43 AM on April 25, 2013

Looking for a MeTa

You keep the batter in the fridge, shakes.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:55 AM on April 23, 2013

Oh, so long as we're talking about hats: anyone have a good spring hat recommendation? I was going to wear my fall hat through spring but the dog got bored and now it (the hat, not the dog) has tiny chew marks invisible to all but me.

So obviously I need a new hat ASAP.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:00 PM on April 23, 2013

TO ETSY!
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:12 PM on April 23, 2013

I pledged for Chaps Without Supplementary Ass, but after receiving a disturbing voicemail from alumnus Michael Shannon I thought better of it.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:18 PM on April 23, 2013

I kind of want those hats which makes you people worse than useless.

Also, I believe that is the Amulet of Tenure your TA had. It's worth 15,000 GP, adds 10 ranks to Knowledge: Archaeology and allows him to cast "Grade While Drunk" once per day.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:33 PM on April 23, 2013

Honest to god you can just fill a slop trough with pierogi and sour cream and I'll eat it like the happiest pig on the farm.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:44 AM on April 24, 2013

(Then become violently ill because I forgot to eat my weight in Lactaid directly beforehand.)
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:45 AM on April 24, 2013

DEEP FRIED PIZZA ROLLS
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:28 AM on April 24, 2013

I want you to fry this

as deep as you can.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:36 AM on April 24, 2013

Also anyone who thinks pie is only for dessert doesn't get to have any of this delicious shepherd's pie. Unless they eat it for dessert.

Suckers.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:47 AM on April 24, 2013

Oh, and everyone should always check their unexamined prescriptivism. Pharmacists are busy people and mistakes happen you want to make sure you get the right medicine.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:48 AM on April 24, 2013

This is just a bunch of sausages floating in milk.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:50 AM on April 24, 2013

I've never been able to get any of Cabot's cheeses to melt well.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 9:11 AM on April 24, 2013

How do you... how do you usually procure them?

First, you invent a time machine.

No, no; first, be smart from the very beginning....
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 10:43 AM on April 24, 2013

I have seriously just been shoveling jelly rings into my mouth since 10 AM
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:00 AM on April 24, 2013

Also there's Guerrero, which is just a bodega that makes amazing fucking tacos, and they have a big bin of chicharróns you can just grab one out of.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:00 PM on April 24, 2013

Honestly calling it the "MFTMA" isn't that much of a stretch.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 12:06 PM on April 24, 2013

God I miss cheeseburger Hot Pockets.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:34 PM on April 24, 2013

Oh goody. Another one of these threads.

...but I guess we still get to read profanity-laced sorority tirades.

Why does this keep coming up? Almost every time there's a Serious Issue Deletion MeTa, it is invariably compared to some other (usually innocuous) post that has absolutely zero bearing on the Serious Issue at hand.

MetaFilter isn't the nightly news or a newspaper. We don't have to fit everything into a half-hour or inches of page. There... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:03 AM on April 24, 2013

And for that matter, a Serious Issue post has no more or less right to be on the front page than anything else the community finds interesting.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 11:08 AM on April 24, 2013

Favorites begetting favorites

I just bribe people at meetups.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 6:49 AM on April 23, 2013

u can buy hamon iberigo at peters shop
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 8:07 AM on April 23, 2013

The Sword of Benny Andajetz

Oh also finding out me and apparently ten other mefites we knew all lived in the same four block area of Brooklyn in the early 2000s.

Yesss. I don't remember exactly how this went, but I know Decani and I lived on literally the same block in south Williamsburg ~2004. Did you live over there too or are you thinking of different people?

And Whelk and I worked down the block from one in the East Village another for well over a year.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 6:08 AM on April 13, 2013

Huh, I've been pronouncing rtha like RZA but with a lisp - "rithah."
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 5:01 AM on April 16, 2013

Thanks everyone

I found MeFi maybe six to eight months after 9/11, and it would've been a huge help to me back then and I can only assume it's helping Boston people now and, yeah, just awesome job all around: MeFites who are commenting, MeFites who are restraining themselves from commenting, the mods keeping the peace, everyone.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 4:32 PM on April 15, 2013

MeFi Housing?

It has to be called ClassMeFides.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:38 PM on April 12, 2013

Also, I think this could be as simple as starting a Google Group and, uh, hoping Google doesn't phase out Google Groups. The MetaFilter NYC one is alive and well!
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:42 PM on April 12, 2013

Cough up a lung, where I'm from, MeTa son, Ain't nothing nice
Mentally been many places but I'm MeFi's own
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 6:01 AM on April 13, 2013

MOTHERFUCKER DUMPING

                $5
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 1:13 PM on April 13, 2013

So, for people considering making spin-off locale Google Groups: I started the NYC one and my advice is to make the group first and invite people to it after, because trying to get a critical mass of people saying "yeah, I'll join" is a lot harder. It's the difference between "hey who wants to go to the movies?" and "I'm going to the movies, who wants to come?" You make the group and worst case scenario, no one joins and you wasted five minutes... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 2:44 PM on April 14, 2013

What would have been a permissible way to raise this topic?

...the quote unquote sickening lack of coverage?

Yeah, framing an FPP around an OpEd pull quote like that still counts as editorializing within an FPP, which is bad enough in stuff that isn't controversial.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 1:37 PM on April 12, 2013

Do you think that means Zimmerman's trial isn't going to get covered because hey, we covered that at the time?

Your post was about a supposed lack of media attention around a trial, which was quickly countered. If someone makes an FPP about the supposed lack of coverage of the Zimmerman trial I will bet you a week's groceries it'll get deleted just as quick as your post.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 1:48 PM on April 12, 2013

When I was a kid, my mom would put red caviar on pancakes (not, like, blini, but good ol'-fashioned fluffy pancakes.) So good.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 2:09 PM on April 12, 2013

I'm honestly surprised that salty/savory things aren't considered for pancake toppings more often than they are. The sweetness of pancakes is subtle enough that it isn't like a crazy clash of flavor when you throw something that isn't sweet on top.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 2:13 PM on April 12, 2013

THANKS A FUCKING LOT

If anybody invites you to an angry place, decline the invitation.

But the Cro-Mags are playing with Madball :(
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 6:33 AM on April 12, 2013

Think how much social justice is powered by anger at injustice.

Still not a good reason to bring Banner onto the helicarrier.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 7:12 AM on April 12, 2013

You mean coincidental and wholly inexplicable fire and neighborhood business protection fees, right?
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 1:15 PM on April 12, 2013

A short update to an old Star Trek: Nemesis AskMe

At that point I suppose it's just personal preference.

Yeah, I agree. The reason I prefer Nemesis over Insurrection is that it's explicitly not a overly-long TNG episode with a bigger budget and that is apparently the exact same reason people prefer Insurrection over Nemesis.
posted to MetaTalk by griphus at 9:47 AM on April 8, 2013